CHIBAS VANISH IN KEYS CIA HIDES CUBAN DEFECTOR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100770013-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 4, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA Hides Cubaw Defector
+ Herald Staff Writer
The super-secret
tral Intelligence Agency, to
former Castro hennhman Rau
Chibas into ?cuSt Wednes
day, informed soprmes repotted
Chibas, who arrived at lie
West Tuesday with his wife anasked for IfolitiE sylurh i
the United States, had disap
geared 'from sigh$Wednesda3
they 44-year-old feftiter fund
arrived at Ivviami Immigration No reason nas yet been given
headquarte3 ,,ar , expected. or Chibas' defection, but for-
'$efore H(s defection, Chibas ;mer associates have said he
was Caatro's railroad adminiq- C was becoming dissatisfied with
trator. He had been treasprpr the communistic tendencies of
of the 26th of July movefpent. Castro.
In Washington, some Latin
During the revolution, Chi- }} American sources saw ('.h; kiss'
b s' wife and two children tiv,- de~fegtibn as a heavy bio to
ed in 4tiami.He was arreited .i, the, Castro regime.
_.,... __
by agents of deposed Diotator
F'uigencio Batista in August
057 while seeretty collecting
'funds for the;revalutian.
A, year la*r he s broad-
rcast.ing fry. a re .dutionary
radio siotusf.in 4 asi,o'sOrien-
te mountainsf~o iuoi .
Key WSt. iCIA4tthorli;ies ap-
parently, him. under their
between Key
wiig-somewhere
West'and Milan} . ` ''
Chibas Wednesday was iden
tified as the Cuban army ma
jor was presided over Premie,
Fidel Castro's first revolution
ary tribunal.
The tribunal - a circus tria
which brought world criticis
-- sentenced Jesus Sosa Blanc
to death. More than 600 "wa
criminals" later were execu
ed in similar trials. I
Immigration officials wer,
hush-lutsli" on Chibas' where
abouts Wednesday. He neve
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